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Re:Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow by csomar on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:38AM (#30348821)
How can you steal an identity and travel in today's world? There are only a few countries that still make passport which are not biometric.
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Re:Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow by mrsuprawsm on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:45AM (#30348936)
Apparently it's quite easy if you have a passport from a country considered wealthy (e.g. EU).

>According to document sellers, it is impossible to fake a working biometric chip, but at many border crossings officials checking passports simply ignore those that don’t work, waving the passport holder through.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/31/revealed-how-f...

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Re:Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow by csomar on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:14PM (#30349354)
Wow. So they collected all this data and complicated all these lives and in the end... the system doesn't work?
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Re:Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow by mindslight on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:57PM (#30350134)
Obviously. The authoritarian impulse is rooted in control, not ultimate effectiveness.
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Re:Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow by donnythecroc on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:19PM (#30352879)
He has a pilots licence. There is a podcast about this that explains it well but basically it's not hard with that kind of money.
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